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Product screenshots

Making an image for your website or README? Start with the complete product screenshot guide. For a specific fix, jump to browser windows, iPhone frames, backgrounds or README images. Compare tools after you know which part you need help with.

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Ellie’s labels picker on an iPhone over a blurred green meadow, with the Home projects row lifted forward on a white band that runs past the phone’s edges

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How to make a good product screenshot

Follow one screenshot from a clean capture to an image someone can understand at a glance.

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Practical guides and examples

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The Simple, but powerful section of the Ellie homepage, with its Time blocking, Brain dump, Recurring tasks and Analytics cards, in a whole Chrome window with ellieplanner.com in the address bar, on a pale blue sky

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How to make a browser window mockup from a screenshot

A free route from capture to export with nothing to install, a copyable HTML browser frame, and real pages in minimal, Safari and Chrome frames with the choices that keep text sharp.

An Ellie task with a due date, notes and three subtasks, shown inside a black iPhone 17 Pro with a Dynamic Island, centered on a blurred mint background

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How to put a screenshot in an iPhone frame, and check that it fits

The free Apple Frames shortcut step by step, then the other ways to put an iPhone screenshot in a device frame, and how to check that the frame fits.

An iPhone showing Ellie's Task Priority sheet with the Medium row lifted, on a soft peach and pink gradient

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Screenshot backgrounds: gradient, photo, fine art or plain color, with examples

The same app screenshot on a gradient, a photo, a painting and a plain color, with the exact settings for each and when to leave the background off.

The uv README on github.com in GitHub’s dark theme, in a dark browser window over a soft blue sky: the README tab, the uv title, its badges, a one-line tagline and a purple bar chart of install times with light gray labels

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Screenshots and GIFs in a GitHub README: size, dark mode and autoplay

A README section you can copy, what GitHub keeps when it renders README images, how to swap a screenshot in dark mode, and why a GIF might not play.

Three browser windows on a soft gradient: Apple’s Product Bezels downloads in the middle, Free-Mockup’s iPhone 17 Pro mockup page on the left and BrandBird’s iPhone 17 mockup generator on the right

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iPhone 17 Pro mockups: Apple’s bezels, free files and generators

Where to get an iPhone 17 Pro mockup for Figma, Photoshop or a browser, what each license asks, and what Apple’s rules allow. Checked September 24, 2026.

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Choose a tool for the job you need it to do.

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Three browser windows over a blurred meadow: CleanShot's homepage in the middle, headlined There are average capture apps. And there's CleanShot., Shottr's orange homepage on the left and Xnapper's dark homepage on the right

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CleanShot X alternatives: the right Mac app for each job

Mac screenshot apps that do part of CleanShot X’s job for less, or go further in one part, sorted by job, with what each costs over three years.

Three browser windows on a pale blue background: Xnapper's homepage in the middle, headlined Snap Beautiful Screenshots Instantly, CleanShot's Background tool editor on the left and Shottr's homepage on the right

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Xnapper alternatives for beautiful Mac screenshots

Apps that add the background, spacing and redaction Xnapper does, sorted by what you’d miss, with which ones actually cover private data.

Three browser windows over a blurred meadow: Shots' homepage in the middle, headlined Create Amazing Mockups, Screenhance's homepage on the left and Pika's homepage on the right

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Shots.so alternatives for device mockups and product shots

Mockup tools that do what Shots does with a different trade-off: prices up front, photo scenes, 3D, or free. Sorted by the kind of mockup you need, with the newest iPhone each one names and prices from each vendor’s page.

Three browser windows over a blurred meadow: Rotato's homepage in the middle, headlined 3D mockup images and movies in minutes, Device Frames on the left and Matte's page headlined Matte is now 3D on the right

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Rotato alternatives for 3D device mockups and animations

Other ways to make 3D or animated device mockups, sorted by how you work, with platforms, export limits, free tiers and prices from each vendor’s own site, and where a 3D mockup doesn’t belong.

Three browser windows on a soft gradient: Mockuuups Studio’s homepage in the middle, headlined Mockups that wooow, without the work, MockUPhone’s free device mockup generator on the left and Screenhance’s device frame generator on the right

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Device mockup generators for iPhone, iPad, MacBook and Apple Watch

Apple’s own frames, mockup generators and frames drawn in code, compared by the iPhone, iPad, MacBook and Apple Watch models they have, price and license.

Three browser windows on a warm peach gradient: TechSmith’s Snagit page, headlined “Work moves faster when you Snagit”, in the middle, with the CleanShot and Tango homepages on either side

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Snagit alternative for Mac: the right app for each job

Mac apps sorted by the Snagit job they take over, from marked-up screenshots and long pages to step guides and quick videos. Prices checked September 24, 2026.

Two browser windows on a pale blue gradient: the top of Shottr’s homepage, headlined Screenshot tool for those who care about pixels, and the top of CleanShot’s homepage, headlined There are average capture apps. And there’s CleanShot.

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Shottr vs CleanShot X: which Mac screenshot app to pick

Two Mac screenshot apps compared job by job: capture, markup, scrolling capture, text recognition, backgrounds, recording, share links and price.